Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals by J.B. Rawlings and J. G. Ekerdt is a textbook for studying Chemical Reaction Engineering. The popular open source package Octave has its origins to the reaction engineering course offered by Prof. Rawlings. This book is accompanied by Octave and Matlab code for solving typical problems encountered in Reaction Engineering.

I figured that maybe one way to learn R is so see whether I can code some of th examples from this book in R. I am by no means suggesting that R can replace MATLAB/Octave for engineering problems but merely it is a way for me to learn the language.

I started with the computational appendix listed in the book’s website and am trying to work through some of the examples there. It will be good to refer to the computational appendix to follow the R code below.